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With ONON I wanted to work with the idea of duration, not necessarily to make a long performance, but to experience duration. To do this, I researched and worked with one team regularly over four years as a means to give time to experience time as it unfolds and to not be working at the fast speed of a one-year production.
Throughout these four years, we made seven short pieces, and one for children: ONONON. The piece uses an apparatus of moving panels, which is very beautiful in itself. You experience time as you watch the pendulum of the panels, moving in various directions, in their own asyncopic way. The performers are moving in this environment and slowly reveal that they speak from a certain future, and how they got there, and became part of a machine:
Unlike with the Emergency Artist, where the piece emphasised the present and the urgency of a set of emergencies, ONON seeks to reach out into the future and reopen the experience of time, the long-term and duration.
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